Paolo della PergolaAlso: Paolo da Pergola, Paolo dalla Pergola, Paul of Pergula, Paul of Pergola, Paulus Pergulensis or Pergolensis, Paulus de Pergula. (died 1455, Venice) was an Italian humanist philosopher, mathematician and OccamistEnnio De Bellis, Nicoletto Vernia e Agostino Nifo: aspetti storiografici e metodologici, Congedo, 2003, p. 9. logician. He was a pupil of Paul of Venice.
Works Paolo della Pergola's most important work was probably De sensu composito et diviso.Printed by 1494; it shares a title with a work of William of Heytesbury. His logical works were printed early.Compendium logicae printed by Erhard Ratdolt in 1481; later in Venice as Compendium logicae; De sensu composito et diviso (1498); as Logica Magistri Pauli Pergolensis. 1510. His Dubia was printed in 1477.
He taught at the Scuola di Rialto from 1421 to 1454.(PDF). He was teacher and friend of the glassmaker Antonio Barovier.PDF.
Among his pupils was also Nicoletto Vernia, a well known professor of philosophy in Padua.Avery Robert Dulles, Princeps Concordiae: Pico della Mirandola and the scholastic tradition, Harvard University Press, 1941, p. 29.
There is a memorial to him in San Giovanni Elemosinario, Venice.San Giovanni Elemosinario
Logica; and, Tractatus de sensu composito et diviso by Paolo della Pergola, edited by Mary Anthony Brown, Saint Bonaventure, New York: Franciscan Institute, 1961.
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External links Lewis E 165 Compendium logicae (Compendium of logic) at OPenn